Nirmala Sitharaman will be India's first woman Defence Minister after Indira Gandhi when she takes a handover from Arun Jaitley on Tuesday after he returns from a visit to Japan. Her Commerce Ministry has been handed over to Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu who, in turn, hands his ministry to Piyush Goyal in a cabinet reshuffle today that saw nine new ministers take oath. Mr Goyal has been promoted to Cabinet rank as have Ms Sitharaman, Dharmendra Pradhan and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.

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